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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: dhcpd uses fake MAC address
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:31:35
Message-Id: gdtpcg$g7v$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd uses fake MAC address by Nick Stinemates
1 Nick Stinemates wrote:
2 > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 02:07:20AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> My router has big problems assigning the correct IPs to Gentoo boxes. If
4 >> the NIC in the box has a MAC address of, say, 01:00:12:11:41:49:1e,
5 >> dhcpd reports something else to router: ff:42:54:59:20:00:1c:21:e0:42:c2
6 >>
7 >> Why is this happening and how do I tell dhcpd not to mess with the MAC
8 >> address it reports to DHCP servers?
9 >
10 > Same experience here. I always thought it was a linux/windows
11 > compatibility problem since that is where I noticed the problem first.
12
13 Nope, it only happens with the dhcpd of Gentoo. Other Linux boxes
14 report the correct MAC address.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dhcpd uses fake MAC address Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>